Bus Services: Concessions

Claire Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many pensioners in  (a) Merseyside and  (b) Crosby received a concessionary bus pass in the latest period for which figures are available.

Sadiq Khan: The Department for Transport is not responsible for issuing passes and so does not maintain records of how many passes individual authorities have issued.
	Merseyside and Crosby are part of the Merseytravel area. The last information held by the Department is that as of March 2009 Merseytravel had issued 307,132 passes to older and disabled people.